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Dear Lena.
I am acting first sergeant this morning and I thought I would sit down to this field desk for a change and write a few lines in ink. Now I know I am not going to do very well with this pen and ink but as long as you can read it I think it will carry out its message. I got your letter of the 5th and was much releaved when I read that you had received the check, for there are fellows here that claim money has been sent them but not received. Twenty five green ones is an awful bundle of dough in this game, (and right here I want to say that I have managed to get along. We are, or ought to be paid the first of next week, and after settling up my debts Id ought to have enough to carry me through till we hit Boston. (If we do you know.)
I have started this letter and been interupted so often that I have turned my job over to one of the other serg. and told him that I would be down in my tent, but not to disturb me again even if the C.O. wanted me. It has been nothing but, Two men for this. I want three men for that. You will observe by the date that it is Sun., which is a very easy day in the army (if your not top serg.) We had breakfast at 6.30 the last named to consist of Jam Bread & Coffee. Some thing like a Sun at home what?
A long train of Ohio troops pulled in this morning, and when I say long I mean it for one of the boys counted 62 cars. Must have been about two regiments. Some of the fellows are getting letters stating that they are decorating the stores in Boston for the parade that is to follow our return. How about it? Say dont be backward in writing about any rumor or notice that you may hear or see for I like to get the strait dope.
My grand father must have been some guy in his day to have had such a resemblance as I seem to carry. I am glad you can see by the picture that Im not getting any skinnyer any way. Im afraid though that Im not getting any fatter either (although my face makes me look so. I am glad it is getting cooler up there and I hope if they do send us home that it will be soon for it is going to be another job getting aclimated at home. That's going some isn't it Aclimated at Home.
Your letter of the 5th reached hear the 9th so you see the service is very good from there down, now. It will go hard for the fellow that you refer to in regard to falling asleep and letting the prisoner escape. Mary's little doily is still hanging in my tent and will till we leave and Ill take it right back there to 297 and hang it in Sam's room. It must be funny at that to hear Mary go at it and I can imagine a lot of it.
Do you know that this is the laziest feeling region on the face of the earth I think; and Im going to admit that it is getting me. I wonder how long it will take for me to feel like work.
Well I have no more to say only that I am well. Tell Em that Kingsman is sick, not serious though. Well hoping just the same as you're hoping I remain
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Kuwait expects to see "positive steps" taken in the dispute between Qatar and three Gulf Arab this week
Kuwait expects to see "positive steps" taken in a dispute between Qatar and three other Gulf Arab states as soon as this week that may include a decision to send those countries' ambassadors back to Doha, a Kuwaiti official said on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain last month took the unprecedented step of recalling their ambassadors from Qatar in protest at what they see as Doha's political meddling and giving support to Islamist groups that they see as a regional political and security menace.
The public nature of the dispute has highlighted the severity of divisions that are usually kept behind the closed doors of the US-allied Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
"There will be very positive steps in the future regarding this ... I hope this week," Kuwait's undersecretary for foreign affairs Khaled Al Jarallah told reporters.
"Part of this will be the ambassadors going back," he said, adding that all the Gulf states wanted to repair their "brotherly" ties.
GCC member Kuwait, which offered to mediate in the dispute, is planning to present a solution to the two sides soon, a Gulf Arab diplomat said on Wednesday, asking not to be named.
Saudi Arabia has said that Qatar needs to make a compromise before talks can even start, the Arab diplomat said.
The three countries, led by Saudi Arabia, have accused Doha of interfering in the internal affairs of countries in the conservative Gulf region by backing Islamist movements in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere. Qatar denies it interferes anywhere but has vowed to stick to its foreign policy.
Saudi and other Gulf officials, as well as Egypt's military-backed rulers, also complain that Doha's pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera is too supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood and critical of their own governments.
Al Jazeera says it is an independent news service giving a voice to everyone in the Middle East.
Sheikh Youssef Al Qaradawi, an influential Qatar-based cleric critical of the authorities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has also ignited tensions.
Qaradawi, who was born in Egypt and is a naturalised Qatari citizen, has said he would resume preaching this Friday after a gap of several weeks which coincided with the Gulf dispute.
At an annual Arab summit last month, Kuwait's ruler Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah urged Arab states to overcome rifts in order to tackle the "enormous" regional dangers.


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First Look: Cocktails at Montmartre, NYC
Note: First Looks gives previews of new drinks and menus we're curious about. Since they are arranged photo shoots and interviews with bars and restaurants, we do not make critical evaluations or recommendations.
Montmartre is Gabe Stulman's sixth restaurant. It's the only one outside the boundaries of the West Village, but it follows the same formula that's come to define his quickly growing Little Wisco Empire. On 18th and Eighth, you'll find another shoebox-size room with hip photos, a focused menu, and whimsical cocktails. Brian Bartels is responsible for the latter. He runs the cocktail program at each of Stulman's restaurants, and he once again aims to coax big flavors from the confines of a small bar.
Montmartre chef Tien Ho, who learned French technique from Daniel Boulud and cooked his way through an Asian pantry as the executive chef of Ma Peche, is a new source of ingredient inspiration. Ho's menu at Montmartre has given Bartels an entirely new stock of ingredients to experiment with. So the cocktails are flavored with a number of new infusions, syrups, and bitters. "I try to incorporate [these ingredients] all the time because I feel like it's wasting your proximity and the tools and ingredients that you have at your disposal. That's the best part about running a cocktail program that's connected to a restaurant. You get to use all these fresh ingredients that are right under your fingertips."
But Bartels wants each drink to be more than the sum of its ingredients. "I'm a big fan of drinks telling stories," he says. "I think it's important that cocktails and names of cocktails have a certain kind of biography behind them. As a bartender, you're engaging with people and you want to make it more meaningful or sentimental." Certain sentiments blossomed 15 years ago in Wisconsin, when Bartels and Stulman met in college. At Montmartre, Bartels tells that story with the Mifflin Street Moonlight. "The drink ties into Montmartre by the name and the place it was inspired by. Gabe's first job as a bartender, and where we met, was at a wine bar called Café Montmartre on Mifflin Street."
Bartels has a brother Tim who lives on the West Coast. They don't see each other often. That's why there's a gin-based cocktail at Montmartre called T. Model Train Dreams. The Train Dreams part is a Dennis Johnson reference, but T. Model is what Bartels has been calling Tim for years. The cocktail is fortified with Timmy Bitters, homemade bitters made from rye whiskey, brandy, and tea. "Tim's never had coffee in his life, ever, he only drinks tea, so I put coconut tea in the bitters to give him a little brotherly love."
Bartels says he always develops drinks with someone in mind. "I like [names and drinks] that force a story, that invite conversation. Whether that's something playful, or something tender like missing a brother, it's celebrating the people we know and the people we're inspired by. That's what drinking is all about."
Take a peek at some of the drinks (all $13) Brian Bartels is serving at Montmartre in the slideshow above »
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I am fascinated by the intersection of Local and our every day lives. The Internet has moved from the era of local questions and world wide answers to the era of local answers to world wide queries.
Google Maps, because of its immense reach, is at the center of this confluence. Real people with real concerns are affected in both positive and not so positive ways by its increasing presence in our daily lives and communities. This confluence is changing how we see the world and interact with our neighbors.
The negative outcomes are highlighted and amplified in the forums. The positive aspects of this change are not so readily obvious as they are buried in folk's balance sheets or kept as secrets in the unpublished tactics of a Local SEO. But the negatives always intrigue me and include events such as disputes between nearby competitors, thefts, the threat of violence, the possibility of gun use against trespassers and even, apparently, real life confrontations all stemming in one way or another from Google Maps and its consequences "on the ground".
Often, folks assign malicious intent to Google's all too impersonal algorithmic way of doing things which they lay at the feet of Google or the competitor or the trespasser. I was cruising the forums where I found this post from Sue, a physician in the UK, who seems to think that Google is discriminating against women:
sue.f 9/10/09
My local listing seems to have been merged with my husbands. He is an osteopath, I am a podiatrist. OK we are married, we live in the same house so have the same home address – this is I suspect not unusual. We have different telephone numbers (although we share a fax number), we work different hours, we see different patients, we do different jobs. We need to be separated again (from a Google point of view that is). We have 2 separate entries in Local Business Center. www.billferguson.co.uk and www.sueferguson.co.uk . At the moment when you search for him you get my website, and when you search for me you get his website. It's very confusing. If a husband and wife are not allowed 2 local listings then I have to get rid of mine I suppose.
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sue.f 9/11/09
Any response from Google?
sue.f 4:30 AM 9/12/09
This is just making the Google map search look useless and inaccurate. How can I fix this? This is discrimination. I need an answer – are a husband and wife allowed separate entries and if not why not. What would happen if the husband was a garage mechanic and the wife was a beauty therapist – would they have to share a local/map entry?
It makes it worse that a local competitor has an entry for each therapist and one for the clinic as well giving them masses of local exposure.
My answer to Sue:
You have fallen prey to a "feature" in Google Maps that merges businesses' listings because the Google clustering algo "thinks" that they are the same business. It sometimes occurs to businesses at the same address and/or competitors at nearby addresses.
If it is any consolation it is an equal opportunity algo error (actually it is not an error at all but a lack of granularity in an intended outcome) that affects not just spouses but all sexes, races, creeds and types of businesses particularly if they are in the same field and in close proximity.
The "cluster" assembles its data from primary data providers, internet yellow pages, websites across the internet, the Local Business Center, business records etc and automatically puts everything it finds into this bucket as it were, Information in the cluster that indicates to Google that the businesses are the same overrides the information provided in the Local Business Center that they are distinct. Google euphemistically calls this merging "over clustering".
It might be resolved by sending signals to Google's cluster that the businesses are in fact different. For example, changing both records to include a "Suite number" in the Local Business Center like Suite A and Suite B might be enough information (then again it might not). A marriage counselor should probably be used to ascertain which of you gets the "A" to avoid any further family conflict. 🙂
It would be desirable to then get the various phone books, the post office, business records, data providers & online directories that Google is using to also recognize this new suite number so that this distinct information is integrated into Google's cluster for the businesses.
Think of it as a slight change of address rather than a separation. Good luck with your listing, business and your marriage!
This new way of doing business in Local, the switch from a human engineered directory to one assembled by machine
will affect is affecting us all. Many of the outcomes are yet to be seen, some will be good and some will not but all will be interesting.


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IBM Slashes Prices on Power Servers, Widens Distribution
Computing and tech services giant IBM said today that it has cut back the prices on its Power Systems servers in a bid to compete more directly with mainstream servers from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Oracle.
For years, IBM's Power line of servers has been aimed at higher-end businesses. The servers run IBM's Power7 chips, and are priced to compete against servers running with chips from Intel. Starting prices on the entry level machines begin at $5,947.
On top of the price cuts, IBM said it will be working with technology distributors Ingram Micro and TechData, both of which will resell not only IBM's PowerSystems, but also its PureSystems line, as well as some storage products. The agreement exposes IBM products to mid-size and smaller companies that IBM doesn't usually sell to directly.
The move represents a bit of a competitive run against HP and Oracle and Dell, whose mainstream corporate computing gear is widely sold to companies of all sizes.


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The sprinter was handed the sanction on Thursday by a disciplinary panel of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission following his positive test for the stimulant oxilofrine at last summer's Jamaican national championships.
The ban is backdated to the time of the offence, meaning Powell will be eligible to compete again in December.
The ruling on the 31-year-old comes two days after his training partner Sherone Simpson was also given an 18-month ban after testing positive for the same stimulant at the national championships.
Powell, who held the 100 metres world record between 2005 and 2008, said in a statement: "This ruling is not only unfair, it is patently unjust.
"Panels such as these, I understood, were assembled to allow athletes who consciously or unconsciously come into conflict with the rules of sport a chance at equitable redemption. Unfortunately, this was not the case."
Powell claimed that he took a legal supplement, Ephiphany D1, which was contaminated with oxilofrine.
His statement continued: " My team commissioned two private laboratories that confirmed that oxilofrine was present in the supplements, despite it not being listed as an ingredient on the bottle nor on its website.
"I would also like to share that, upon realising that the supplement contained oxilofrine, my team made contact with both the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), who not only ordered samples of the supplement from the manufacturer, but also tested and confirmed our findings.
"The USADA has also since issued a warning on their website for athletes to avoid the product as it contains banned substances.
"This is the first time in nearly 12 years of being in the sport and over 150 tests that I have had an adverse finding. It is for a stimulant, a stimulant that is only banned during competition and experts have declared has no performance-enhancing effects.
"Sanctions for a stimulant and this kind of infraction usually range from public warnings to a ban of three months, six months in the most extreme cases.
"I was and am still more than prepared to accept a sanction that is in line with the offence. Instead, nine months later, what has been handed down is clearly not based on the offence nor the facts surrounding it.
"My team has begun preparations for an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
"I want to reiterate that I have never knowingly taken any banned substances. I did all the necessary checks before taking Ephiphany D1 and it is my hope that the CAS will prove to be a more open and fair avenue for the review of all the facts in my case - facts and truth that were not taken into consideration at my initial hearing."
If upheld, the ruling means Powell will miss this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
The Jamaican won the 100m gold medal at the 2006 Games in Melbourne and has been a gold medallist at both the Olympics and World Championships in the sprint relay.


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I am developing a sample application for learning Oops concepts and have a following scenario which has entities: Task, Reminder.
A Task simply stores the description, status, title etc for it and it is possible to create a reminder for the task i.e. A task may/may not have a reminder set for it (Association would essentially be: 1 task can have 0..1 reminder). Required possible attributes/methods are:
Task <Class>
-- id
-- title
-- status
-- Description
-- Reminder (object of reminder class) => Not sure whether there will be a Reminder object here?
-- setReminder() => Not sure whether its the responsibilty of the Task class to set a reminder?
Reminder <Class>
-- id
-- ReminderDate
-- ReminderTime
-- Task (object of task class) => Not sure whether there will be a Task object here as well?
From Object-Oriented point of view, I am not sure whether the above class description is correct or not. Kindly Suggest.
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Scythe Kama Cross CPU Cooler Review
Published: 20th November 2007 | Source: Scythe EU | Price: £22.97 |
Scythe is a name synonymous with aftermarket cooling hardware. I would like to wager that there aren't too many PC enthusiasts who hadn't at least seen, owned or heard about this well known Japanese based company's products. But who are Scythe, and what do they do?
Scythe Co., Ltd., began its operation and business in November, 2002 as a distributor and manufacture of PC parts & gaming devices for "DIY PC Experts!". Scythe's first venture was to manufacture a super powerful YET super quiet CPU cooler (Scythe Kamakaze CPU cooler), and with the great success of this Kamakaze CPU cooler, Scythe became recognized as the leading CPU cooler supplier in Japan's Akihabara Electric Town. Shortly there after, due to popular demand, Scythe began exporting products all over the world.
Scythe has had an impressive run of success with their range of innovative and well-performing CPU heat sinks; plus they've gathered a considerable fan base along the way. From the Scythe Ninja through to the Scythe Mugen, there is a Scythe heat sink for every possible scenario and end-user.
Today, I have been given the opportunity to review the Scythe Kama Cross CPU Cooler, which boasts an X-structure shape to allow the airflow to both cool the CPU, as well as components around the motherboard with a minimum loss in airflow. The Scythe Kama Cross has been marketed as 'Quad-core ready'; which will certainly be an area that I will be assessing when we arrive at that section of the review.
Let's begin this performance review by looking at the Scythe Kama Cross's specifications. The specifications were unashamedly taken from Scythe's product page.
Kama Cross CPU Cooler
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Socket 478 All Speeds
Socket T / (LGA)775 All Speeds
Socket 754 All Speeds
Socket 939 All Speeds
Socket 940 All Speeds
Socket AM2 All Speeds
140(W) x 120(D) x 132mm(H) (Overall)
100 x 100 x 25mm (Fan)
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Installation Manual:
Kama Cross Manual (English/French/German)
The universal compatibility that the Scythe Kama Cross affords from socket 478 though to AMD's socket AM2 is a welcome feature; ensuring that those on older sockets can benefit from a quiet and efficient cooling solution. So too is the reduction in weight. It seems that many cooling hardware manufacturers are bordering on the 'crazy' side when it comes to size. If the Scythe Kama Cross can cool a quad-core processor efficiently whilst weighing in at just a smidge over 1/2 kilogram then I'm impressed.
Let's head over the page and have a look at what you get for your money...
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looks like a quality cooler but the markets so saturated I find it hard to get excited about any air coolers whatsoever these days
anyway, another quality review mateQuote
Nice review mate.Quote
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In a PC mag review this cooler caused the PC to run hotter than the stock cooler.
It certainly looks cool, not that that's anything to go on Quote
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In a PC mag review this cooler caused the PC to run hotter than the stock cooler.
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In a PC mag review this cooler caused the PC to run hotter than the stock cooler.


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The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library in Berkeley, together with the branch library at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, offer a rich array of programs, services, and resources to support the study and research needs of the nine member schools, six affiliates, and two academic centers that comprise the GTU.
Starr King students, faculty, and staff are welcome to use the library facilities. A skilled and helpful staff are ready to serve you. The library provides a comfortable place to study and offers a variety of workshops and other learning opportunities that will enrich your experience at the GTU.
The library also offers a growing number of services for the online community. Explore the online catalog GRACE (see Reference Desk), which will guide you to the treasures of the library, including its special collections; and announcements of art exhibitions and public programs hosted by the library in Berkeley or San Anselmo.
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Ti West prepares to head behind the camera once again, this time with a spooky tale of a haunted hotel in "The Innkeepers".
Jessica Alba finds herself headlining a controversial horror film that was the last to be picked up at the recent Sundance Film Festival. Alba left part way through the first screening of "The Killer Inside Me", leaving director Michael Winterbottom to field angry questions as to why it was necessary to show such gratuitous violence towards women.
The Syfy Channel continues its legacy of "high quality" films as it prepares to revisit some classic fairy tales, with a twist. Slated for remakes are "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Hansel and Gretel".
Daniel Craig will be exchanging his dapper "Bond" trappings for a set of spurs as he signs on to headline Jon Favreau's big screen adaptation of "Cowboys & Aliens".
Scout Taylor-Compton rambles on via YouTube about why she doesn't want to play Laurie Strode in a Zombie-less "Halloween 3". She never mentions if anyone has actually ASKED her to.


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Thanking our own heaven on OneWebDay
This coming Saturday (22 September) is OneWebDay, a project I'm proud to have been a part of since Susan Crawford thought it up many months before the first one last year. OneWebDay is meant as a day on which we celebrate the Web and what it does for each of us.* So I want to celebrate what the Web does, and continues to do, for me as a journalist.
The arc of my writing career is something of a parabola: a broad U-shaped valley between the time when I worked as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor and the time when I started writing on and about the Web, and everything that makes it good, including (and especially) Linux.
I started my journalism career almost straight out of college, writing first as a reporter and photographer for Wayne Today in suburban New Jersey, and then as editor, reporter, photographer and layout guy for the West Milford Argus. (I just checked to see if either still exists. Both do, though regrettably neither seems to have any editorial on the Web.) That was in 1970-72. Then I got a job at WSUS radio, even farther out in the New Jersey exurbs. There I did everything from disc jockeying to selling advertising to writing and reading news and even (as a former ham radio operator) some engineering at the mountaintop transmitter, where I once climbed the tower to change a light bulb for payment in the form of a six-pack.
I followed the radio vector to stations in North Carolina, where my journalistic work took the form of writing and performing as a comedic character called "Doctor Dave". My nickname today is a fossil remnant of that persona. From there I went on to writing and editing work for a scientific parapsychological research outfit (yes, they existed) that hung off the side of Duke University. It was there that one of my funny pieces caught the attention of a new magazine called OMNI, which recruited me to write features for them. Those paid $800 apiece, which was huge money in 1977-78, and I entertained fantasies of making a career as a writer of funny stuff. In a flurry of sweat and ambition I wrote a pile of "spec" work and hired an agent, who shopped my work to National Lampoon and various book publishers, all of which shot it down. OMNI cut me off too, I think because they didn't like seeing me using an agent.
Around that same time I was writing copy on the side for a fledgling advertising agency, two partners of which soon invited me to join on as a third. Thus Hodskins Simone & Searls was born. Long story short, HS&S was quite successful, eventually moving to California and becoming one of the top advertising and PR agencies for high tech clients in Silicon Valley. During that time I honed my writing skills on advertising copy, but pretty much gave up on journalism, even as a sideline.
Still, I cared about tech trends; so by the late 1980s I had long been following the Internet. By the early 90s, I also knew about the Web, and began expecting both the Net and the Web to change everything, including writing. So I started to push my writing to some of the tech magazines that were around back then. I only had one bite, from PC Week, which liked my stuff but didn't know what to do with it, because it wasn't about PCs. Instead it was about the Net and the Web and how both changed everything.
I knew the Net was really getting promising when my friend Phil Hughes, a brilliant bearded Unix geek from Central Casting, included me on a email list of folks who were talking about starting a magazine for free software. Why free software? Because that was the only kind that made sense for building out the new networked world. One day Phil announced to the list that the magazine would be about Linux, which he thought would provide the foundation of everything that followed in the free software world. He was right. Thus the free software magazine was born instead as Linux Journal, which it hit the streets in 1994, the same month Linux itself hit version 1.0.
I didn't start writing for Linux Journal right away. Instead I wrote for a sister magazine called Websmith. That got mooshed into LJ around the time Netscape open-sourced Mozilla, in early 1998. I covered that event for LJ, and did a long interview with Marc Andreessen and Tom Paquin. Not long after that Phil invited me to join Linux Journal as a full-time editor, and the parabola of my journalism career returned to high ground I had vacated at the end of my OMNI stint, eighteen years earlier.
In early 1999 Chris Locke, Rick Levine, David Weinberger and I co-wrote a rant called The Cluetrain Manifesto, which made such a big splash that we went on to write the book-length version of the thing, which came out in January 2000, just in time to help cause the dot-com crash. (So some have said. I hope so, anyway.) It was in late 1999 that I also started blogging, thanks encouragement and help from Dave Winer.
Today, in addition to my work as Senior Editor of Linux Journal, I'm a fellow at both UCSB's Center for Information Technology and Society and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. And I make a living speaking and consulting as well, mostly on matters related to the Internet, open source, or whatever.
On the avocational side, I now have over seventeen thousand pictures on the Web, mostly on (Linux-based) Flickr.
The moral of my OneWebDay story is this: If it weren't for the Web, I wouldn't be here. In fact, I might instead be nearing the end of a long career as a marketing guy who happened to have been a journalist once and still did a little writing on the side.
At the Berkman Center today we were treated to four different views of where the Web was going and what issues might concern us. After those talks, John Palfrey put me on the spot by asking me to start the follow-up remarks. I had nothing prepared, but perhaps it was better that way.
I confessed to being a utopian. That is, I believe what we have with the Web today is as close to a utopia as humans have ever built, or ever could build. If the stars shone through the clouds but once in a lifetime, Emerson said, their beauty would be legend. Incredibly, we have made those stars, and a firmament in which they can shine. And they are ourselves.
* I got ahead of myself here. Being somewhat calendar-blind (much as some people are color-blind), I actually woke up today thinking it was the 22nd, and that I'd better get my OneWebDay piece finished fast. I just noticed, at the point when 90 people have already read this piece, that, um, it's the 18th. Duh.
So. What to do. Should I yank it and bring it back out on the 22nd, or just live with my dumb flub? Having ample experience at the latter, I opted for that course.


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See This/Skip That: From Dallas Buyers Club to Free Birds
Dallas Buyers Club is one of the year's best, say PEOPLE's critics, but Free Birds could make for a cheesy Thanksgiving
Dallas Buyers Club, Ender's Game and Last Vegas are all solid bets for weekend fun, say PEOPLE's writers, but Free Birds is one lame duck.
Here's what to see and what to skip this weekend at the movies.
See This
Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey has never been funnier than he is playing Ron Woodroof, a Texas man who, in the mid-'80s, was told he had AIDS and 30 days to live. He's also never been more committed, revealing and poignant – but that's what one expects from a film about the early days of AIDS. Dallas Buyers Club, though, is all about defying expectations.
Ostensibly, the two-bit electrician and rodeo cowboy is supposed to accept his fate and go home and die. Instead, Ron gets busy. He finds a connection who can supply him with black-market AZT, which turns out to be more deadly than therapeutic in certain doses. He then becomes an armchair scientist, researching safer drugs and smuggling them from Mexico to deliver to desperate patients in the U.S. It would be impossible to believe it if weren't a true story, but that is indeed how a homophobic, hard-living Texas sumbitch became one of the unlikeliest heroes of the AIDS crisis.
Woodroof doesn't do it alone, of course. He enlists help from his new best friend and eventual business partner, Rayon (Jared Leto), a transsexual party girl he meets in the hospital. If you don't recognize Leto at first that's understandable, since he disappears so entirely into the role, as physically altered as the hauntingly gaunt McConaughey. Together they're transfixing, playing off each other to deliver the best performances of their careers.
Jennifer Garner rounds out the cast as Ron and Rayon's doctor, Eve Saks, inadvertently drawn into their pharmaceutical club. She's a solid foil for the dramatic pair, grounding the action while they take it to new heights, often in pointedly funny ways. And by the way, thank God for those laughs. They're as needed as they are welcome, a truer snapshot of a life well-lived than the grim slog Dallas could've been. As it is, the film is warm, funny, only occasionally melancholy, and full of wonderful surprises.
– Alynda Wheat
See This, Too
Ender's Game
We spent the summer in multiplexes seeing the world get blown to bits. But it's almost winter now, and it's time to pick up the pieces. In Ender's Game, the really bad stuff happened a half century before our story begins, back when ant-like alien invaders killed tens of millions of people, and would have laid waste to the rest had it not been for the actions of a single, cunning soldier. Society – here represented by a grimly determined Harrison Ford – has staked its future on crafting the next savior out of a child to make sure the buggers never do it again. Enter Ender Wiggin, played with equal parts tenderness and viciousness by Hugo's Asa Butterfield.
There's something both fresh and old-fashioned about Ender's Game, which tracks our half-pint hero as he competes in various war games and navigates the social mores of life inside the high-pressure Battle School on his way to becoming a super soldier. Like Butterfield's well-calibrated central performance, the movie never overplays its hand in examining issues that feel especially relevant today, from the moral complexity of drone warfare to the psychological toll of being raised in a society always in conflict.
For his return to space, Ford is merely okay in the gruff Obi-Wan Kenobi-esque role, but there are other strong supporting parts, from Ben Kingsley's war hero-turned-battle mystic to Ender's psycho Battle School tormentor, played by Hannah Montana's Moisés Arias. While the effects may be cutting-edge – the war games unspool like an eighth grader's dream of zero-gravity laser tag – the film itself feels like a throwback to a time when big-budget sci-fi was a forum for examining big ideas and concepts and not simply a platform to sell Legos and spin sequels.
– Oliver Jones
Skip That
Free Birds
Unless you plan to serve your kids pizza for Thanksgiving, this turkey isn't for you. Free Birds stars Owen Wilson as Reggie, saved from the dinner table by a presidential pardon. But he's whisked away from his sweet life of telenovelas and food delivery at Camp David by Jake (Woody Harrelson), a dim-bulb spouting nonsense about time-traveling back to the first Thanksgiving to change turkey history. Before you can say "flux capacitor," they're back in 17th-century New England. That's when Free Birds heads south.
In its zeal to rewrite history, Birds recasts the turkeys as Native Americans, fighting the evil Pilgrims, led by Myles Standish (Colm Meaney). Maybe it's meant to be PC, but replacing people with animals is just insulting. (A couple of actual Native Americans show up toward the film's end, but they're such obvious face-saving tokens, it's embarrassing.)
Plus, there's that part about teaching kids to kick the turkey habit in favor of pizza. Now, I have no problem with vegetarians or vegans, people who eat probiotic, paleo, Atkins or gluten-free. But pushing fast food on children is pure corporate cynicism, especially when you highlight a particular brand. (Hey kids, don't eat Reggie, eat Chuck E. Cheese's!) A few lame jokes I could live with, but evil messaging is far worse.
But Watch This
Last Vegas
Formulaic but still pretty amusing, Last Vegas is solid weekend fun for the mature moviegoer. Robert De Niro, Kevin Kline, Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman play childhood friends, the Flatbush Four, who reunite for a bachelor party in Sin City. Mary Steenburgen is the wickedly funny, sexy chanteuse they meet (and whom a few of them fall for) in an off-strip casino. Together, they spend a few days throwing back drinks, nursing grudges and chiding perma-tanned Billy (Douglas) for marrying a girl less than half his age. It may not be the most original story, but you'll still get a chuckle out of seeing Freeman cut it up on the dance floor. And Steenburgen? What a woman!


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"If it were true, you wouldn't be meeting me."
- Hamas leader Shiek Yassin, in an interview with Newsweek, dismissing reports that Arafat had placed him under house arrest.
Yasser Arafat's Dec. 16 speech calling for a halt to suicide bombings was received with great skepticism. Even the rabidly pro-Palestinian Suzanne Goldenberg of the UK Guardian wrote: "The impact of Mr Arafat's message was blunted by the fact that none of his previous calls to end attacks on Israelis have been matched by a concerted effort to crack down on suicide bombers and gunmen."
Indeed, a mere two days later, Arafat fulfilled the prophecies and reneged on his call to stop violence. At a speech in Ramallah (Dec. 18), Arafat unleashed a torrent of anti-Israel incitement:
We are prepared to give 70 of our martyrs for every martyr of theirs in this campaign.
"We with the help of God will meet next time in Jerusalem, because we are fighting in order to bring the victory to our prophets, every baby, every child, every man, every women, and every older person, and all the youngsters, we will sacrifice ourselves for our holy places, and we will establish the guard on them, and are prepared to give 70 of our martyrs for every martyr of theirs in this campaign, because this is our holy land. We will continue to fight..."
Then, on December 23, the military wing of the Arafat-affiliated Fatah group, issued a flyer declaring that the intifada would continue: "As far as we are concerned the intifada will continue. We must prepare for a continued escalation in attacks against the IDF and settlers if Israel continues its attacks against Palestinians."
Did your contact their local media report on Arafat's latest incitement speech?
(courtesy of IMRA and HonestReporting.com)
In September 2001, public pressure forced book-seller Amazon.com to terminate its associate's arrangement with Intifada.com, when it was determined that money raised from the sale of Amazon books was being used to fund terror activities.
Now it seems another one has fallen through the cracks. The website http://alaqsaintifada.org/bookstore/ is also raising funds through the Amazon associates program.
You can log onto Amazon.com and file a complaint.
(thanks to David K. for the alert)
Barbara Amiel touched off a diplomatic scandal on December 21 when she reported in the (London) Daily Telegraph that the ambassador of a major EU country said the world's troubles were all because of "that sh***y little country Israel."
Though Amiel did not name the diplomat in question, he was quickly identified as Daniel Bernard, the French ambassador to London. Bernard is a close confidante of President Chirac, and previously served as the French ambassador to the United Nations.
The ambassador does not remember if he used those words.
Bernard's defense was awfully weak. "The ambassador does not remember if he used those words," declared the press secretary at the French Embassy.
The London Jewish community has called for Bernard to be removed from his diplomatic post.
Barbara Amiel is the wife of Conrad Black, the media magnate who publishes The (UK) Spectator, Daily Telegraph, Chicago Sun-Times, Montreal Gazette, Jerusalem Post, and others.
Aish.com has obtained rights to publish the full text of Amiel's original column. Go to: http://www.aish.com/a/r/74.asp
A University of Maryland campus sidewalk -- more than a half-mile of it -- is now filled with the outlines and names of the 235 victims of Palestinian terrorism of the past 15 months. This was the result of work by a group of Jewish students.
The students first gathered at the campus to recite Psalms and read aloud the names of the victims, and then traced in chalk each other's bodies on the sidewalk. Aside each "body," they wrote a victim's name, age, and what he was doing while murdered. For instance, it was noted that Yaakov Danino, 17, was killed while eating pizza.
Students reported that the reaction on campus the next morning was "striking. There is not a free spot on the whole mall to walk without stepping on a 'body,' and students are taking great pains not to step on them."
(courtesy of Arutz 7)
An IDF soldier lodged an official complaint with Jerusalem police against MK Muhammad Barakei who allegedly spat in the soldier's face when asked for his ID at a checkpoint.
The Member of Knesset entreated the Arab world to unite against the Israeli government.
It was the third complaint lodged against Barakei by a soldier or policeman in the last six months. Barakei is already under police investigation for slapping a policeman outside the Interior Ministry in east Jerusalem.
Earlier this year, another Arab MK, MK Azmi Bishara, joined Hizbullah leaders at a ceremony in Syria and entreated the Arab world "to unite against the warmongering Sharon government." Said Bishara: "We will not forget Palestine and Jerusalem will remain the focal point for our strugglers."
Another Knesset Member, Talab El-Sana (United Arab List), recently called the shooting of eight Israeli soldiers and two civilians on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv "a legitimate part of the Palestinian struggle."


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Talk:2011 Group 4 Project
- 1 Peer Assessment
- 2 Post Peer Assessment Discussion
- 3 Week 7
- 4 Week 6
- 5 By Week 5
- 7 After anzac day
- 8 Week 9
- 9 Week 7
- 10 Discussions
- 11 Ideas
- 12 Research Areas
- 13 Working progress
Peer Assessment
Group 4
- Introduction: Too short and it definitely needs at least a picture.
- History: A few more images would be better.
- Structure: Introduction to the structure of desmosomes, you do not need another intro when u already have one at the top. So, this one can be merged with the one at the top.Structures on 2 different levels; good organising.Outer dense plate; you might wanna consider making a brief intro to it , as it kind of so unfamiliar to regular readers.
- Related diseases and research: They are alright.
- Overall: the headings are confusing , in particular ,in structural part.
Group 4-Desmosome
- Intro – needs more general description of desmosomes, its structure and function as well as a line or two on introducing the following content.
- History – very extensive and no huge gaps in between.
- Structure – The intro in this part could be simplified and maybe moved to the introduction section?
- Function – addition of dot points might help to simplify the information and make it easy to read.
- Related Diseases – one or two more diseases in this section would be good. Brief prevalence and treatment for each disease would be desirable.
- Glossary – needs expansion by including words like haploinsufficiency etc.
- Current research – more studies may be added.
Group 4
Very well done. This is very technical and is very well research. High level of detail requiring specific knowledge that is not covered on the page. This page needs a glossary to explain terms, although it is meant for peers the technical nature of the page requires some explanation of terms to make the page more accessible. Not sure if it's worth a mention, but the pubmed references could be done differently to give info about the resource on the page. The introduction is relevant but short, maybe including slightly more detail or theimportance of this junction would help. Besides these small details, I found this page incredibly informative with the amount of depth and detail, great work guys.
Group 4
Good work group 4. It is a very detailed yet concise page! However for the introduction and the function of this junction needs abit of fleshing out. The introduction seems abit to brief. Maybe the brief mention of what you will be talking about throughout the page or even just going into abit more detail to get the readers interested in this topic. For the function section, use of examples would be better to allow the readers to have a better grasp of what you are talking about. I like your groups use of pictures, they go really well with the text. Good work guys!
Group 4
-the introduction is too short ,it needed some images and " the introduction to the structure of desmosomes" below the history should go to the actual introduction of the project , as it briefs through a little of each aspect of the topic.
-it is hard to follow , in particular when I reach the dense plate part, like where in desmosomes those dense plates are?
Peer review
- Intro – Add ganglia to glossary? May be a labelled diagram showing the general anatomy of neuron, axon, ganglion, synaptic junction etc would be more illustrative and saves words.
- History – has there been any discoveries after 1981?
What is a synaptic junction-Good use of diagrams and descriptions are clear and concise.
- Types of synaptic junctions – Great summary at the end put into a table. How they function may be better illustrated by a video.
- Synaptic Integration and Modulation – Brief description of what synaptic integration and modulation are at the beginning of the section may be helpful in providing the context to later contents. I assume that the content under subtitle "The action potential and summation" describes synaptic integration? "IPSPs or EPSPs" shouldn't be abbreviated the first time they appear though I can see the full name in Glossary section.
- Neurotransmitters – this section is greatly done! I like the combination of brief paragraphs, use of table and picture
- Diseases Associated with Synaptic Junctions Dysfunctions – Medical jargons such as "substantia nigra", "lewy bodies" might be difficult for non-medical readers to understand. Add to the glossary in the end or links to external website may be helpful. Overall I think this section is too medical, it'll be a great section for a med assignment but for cell biology I think there's a bit too much information.
- Current and Future Research and Developments – One or two more studies would be great; otherwise this section is well written and presented.
- Intro: Too short and needs overview of what is occurring on the page. Maybe add an image as well.
- History: More images maybe and put the image to the right side maybe, wrapped by text, Does that make sense? Well written.
- Structure: Great that you got permission but it doesn't need to be included at the top on the page. Maybe make a reference to it when you discuss the paper.
- Function: Heading a little confusing i would consider revising grammar for these ie: 'Desmodome as (a) cellular adhesion junction' - needs the a included at least. Also you launch straight into this section so maybe add a little preamble as to allow the reader to follow your thoughts rather than jumping from topic to topic. The images here need to have the website added into their image page and the last image falls bellow this section.
- Hemidesmosomes: the link here needs to be formatted with the title of the page.
- Regulation: Images should really move to be wrapped on a side so as not to impede flow and they need copyright info and a link to the location they came from.
- Disease: Images here need captions and to be wrapped in the text rather than creating lots of extra white space.
- Current Research: Too short and needs more articles and research being done.
- Images and video: Add ALL the images from the page into here otherwise it is a bit of a waste of space. Also format the link properly!
- No glossary???
Group 4
- Obviously, introduction=not done.
- At least a picture is needed to draw attention of the reader.
- History good.
- Structure needs to be fixed (add pictures, ordering the text, right subheadings).
- Function is good.
- "Knock out" is a good idea.
- Regulation section maybe a table is needed.
- Diseases are presented good (just fix the design).
- Current research not finished.
- References need to be fixed.
- Overall, not enough text in many parts of this group project, not enough pictures, not tables etc, therefore this research is not completed yet.
-there is a few of grammar mistakes and typos,like under the intro part "neurones are a specialised cell", under the subheading of what is a synaptic junction , first line,"between to nerve cells".
-the terms or text in images are hardly seen as the text is either fainted or too tiny and the page isnt resourceful enough to me.
Group 4
- Like the subdivisions in structure. There's an excellent summary of function in this section "other roles including strengthening the internal structure of a cell, sensing environmental cues, regulating tissue homeostasis and assisting in tissue morphogenesis", which I think would be better in the function section. It gives a better general outline of the roles than the info that is currently in functions. Some of the roles mentioned in the structure section aren't even mentioned in the function section.
- As with all of the groups there are a few typos and grammatical errors
- Good use of relevant literature to explain desmosome regulation. Was also a good segue between function and disease
- Surely there is more than one current study?
Hi guys, someone accidentally edited the template at the bottom of the project page instead of editing your project page so your group sub headings were on everyones project page instead of just yours. when you edit a page, make sure you are editing your group project page, it is really easy to edit another page without realising it. (ive done that before too). Ive fixed it for you :) Hope this makes sense :) -Jill (group 6)
Post Peer Assessment Discussion
Hey guys in response to the peers i moved around my pictures, gave them text under them, and added a lot of new information and some photos to the structure section. the only issue we have left is to clean up our reference list since it mostly looks like a bunch of pubmed IDs. i guess we will ask mark what to do with this.--Michael Orenstein 21:48, 25 May 2011 (EST)
Week 7
- This is the week before the mid-session break.
- In the lab this week we will have an opportunity to discuss any issues which are slowing progress on your project.
- The Thursday of the week beginning 02 May will be when all projects will be open to Peer Assessment.
- What you have on your page by Thursday of that week will be the content that others in the class will comment upon.
Week 6
- I see many groups now have subsection titles for their projects.
- Here are some searches: Pubmed search all databases junction | PLoS junction | JCB junction You can now simply put your own search term into each top window.
- Now's the time to get your images, movies, media etc uploaded. Biomed central | JCB | JCB Archive | PLoS. Once uploaded you can make a gallery on either your project or discussion page using <gallery>File:name here</gallery> tags with your image files listed between the tags. When you upload project images, add this text as it appears replacing # with your own Group number to the summary information [[Category:2011Project#]].
- Shown below are the criteria that will be used to assess your final project.
Group Assessment Criteria
- The key points relating to the topic that your group was allocated are clearly described.
- The choice of content, headings and sub-headings, diagrams, tables, graphs show a good understanding of the topic area.
- Content is correctly cited and referenced.
- The wiki has an element of teaching at a peer level using the student's own innovative diagrams, tables or figures and/or using interesting examples or explanations.
- Evidence of significant research relating to basic and applied sciences that goes beyond the formal teaching activities.
- Relates the topics and content of the Wiki entry to learning aims of cell biology.
- Clearly reflects on editing/feedback from group peers and articulates how the Wiki could be improved (or not) based on peer comments/feedback. Demonstrates an ability to review own work when criticised in an open edited wiki format. Reflects on what was learned from the process of editing a peer's wiki.
- Evaluates own performance and that of group peers to give a rounded summary of this wiki process in terms of group effort and achievement.
- The content of the wiki should demonstrate to the reader that your group has researched adequately on this topic and covered the key areas necessary to inform your peers in their learning.
- Develops and edits the wiki entries in accordance with this sites wiki guidelines.
By Week 5
Each Group member has added to the discussion page:
- A Review Article
- A Historic Research Article
- A Current Research Article
No two students should add the same paper and there should be a link to the original article.
--Mark Hill 14:17, 20 April 2011 (EST) Looking at your discussion page there appears to be group members not actively contributing to the work. I remind all group members that your final mark will also be based upon your contribution to the project during its development phase.
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--Mark Hill 17:14, 30 March 2011 (EST) OK Group 4, Just one student (Z3288729) trying to organise an online discussion to date and no content added by any other group member to either your discussion or project page. Also no response to Z3288729 request about the project topic. You were meant to have already begun looking into both the topic and references, pasting links on your discussion page. I will see you in the lab tomorrow to discuss whether you are having problems or are simply not doing the work. This search should get you started. Search Pubmed: Desmosome
--Zaid Imtoual 20:37, 27 April 2011 (EST)
--Sarah Jenkins 13:25, 10 May 2011 (EST) Hey im just trying to fix up the glossary and all of the things i have in it are cadherins and its getting very repetitive. is it really necessary to have a glossary ??
After anzac day
--User:Z3129413 20:37, 27 April 2011 (EST) I have a question for the group: in Function I have started to take the individual protein components of the desmosome and am trying to outline from the relevant studies their individual function besides the obvious contribution synergistically as a whole to the binding of two cells together. Desmoplakin for instance and its implication in vascular proliferation via microtibule regulation. I can see no other way (at the moment) to tackle the function subject. Is this acceptable.?
--Sarah Jenkins 09:09, 29 April 2011 (EST) If this is the most effective way of doing it then it is fine. as long as at some point you show what its functions are as a whole. another way of organising it is, instead of dividing it into individual proteins and their functions, dividing it into functions and then relate it to each of the proteins? hope this helps.
Week 9
I went through and changed the references on our page like Mark suggested. from what I can see, the page is now working fine so feel free to upload your work now :) --Sarah Jenkins 07:41, 4 May 2011 (EST)
Week 7
who deleted some of the subheadings from our page??? is it not important to talk about hemidesmosomes and related abnormalities?? please explain why you are deleting things before you do it. the rest of the group is only going to get confused! --Sarah Jenkins 09:10, 15 April 2011 (EST)
== WEEK 6-7: I have set up some subheadings on our project page. We really need to get a move on and start some writing soon if it is possible. I think we may even have to meet up to discuss how our group work is going===--Sarah Jenkins 11:07, 10 April 2011 (EST)
It looks like everyone has found some articles, so would it now be possible to start the writing process this weekend? We dont need alot here but it would be good to start bringing our ideas together --Sarah Jenkins 10:47, 6 April 2011 (EST)
do we write straight to the other main page? z312--User:Z312 19:29, 10 April 2011 (EST)
Yes, it is probably easier that way as this page looks like a disaster at the moment. Just make sure that everything is also properly referenced. --Sarah Jenkins 17:10, 12 April 2011 (EST)
Firstly, is everybody happy with the topic that was decided upon last week? Next, we need to divide ourselves into sections of the topic. What if we divided it into:
Structure and function
Related abnormalities
Current research methods
Current and future possibilities for research
I personally would be most interested in researching the related abnormalities.\
(z3288729) S.J
(z3217345) M.B (Preference for structure and function)
(z3289066) E.K current research methods is good
I think that we need to go into a lot more detail with the layout and division of work between us. If anyone could help with this it would be much appreciated. We could possibly look into how they were first discovered also? I had a quick look at function, and there is HEAPS. This should become a separate subject area. With structure, we could look into location within the cell as well? Hemidesmosomes needs to be addressed, not in a huge amount of detail but it cannot be ignored. --Sarah Jenkins 11:01, 30 March 2011 (EST)
Since there won't be much information about current research methods, I'm happy to do hemidesmosomes as well.--Elisabeth Karsten 11:04, 30 March 2011 (EST)
Great. I was thinking that we shouldn't have way too much on related abnormalities, so I can work on the structure as well?? And then leave function to Z3217345 --Sarah Jenkins 11:07, 30 March 2011 (EST)
I am happy to take on the role of team manager if everyone thinks im up to it? I agree that we do need some authority and I like the idea of all of us working on each section before moving on to the next one. --Sarah Jenkins 08:52, 31 March 2011 (EST)
Research Areas
Structure and function
Journal Articles
Desmosome structure: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17945476
Desmosome: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20066089
Desmosomes: adhesive strength and signalling in health and disease: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20626351
General desmosome information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20066089
Desmosome assembly and cell-cell adhesion are membrane raft-dependent processes: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21071449
Cellular and molecular biology of the desmosome: - Mechanical continuity is provided by desmosomes and adherens junctions http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20847325
The desmosome in the epidermis and myocardium: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18957846
Desmosome structure, composition and function: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17854763
Biochemical Characterization of the Desmosome: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21270806
Regulation of desmosome assembly and adhesion: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15561586
Mechanisms of desmosome assembly and disassembly: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12472547
The desmosome: structure, function and acquired pathology: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7854861
Articles From Respected Cell Biology Journals
Intermediate filaments and the initiation of desmosome assembly (Journal Of Cell Biology): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3894376
Structure and assembly of desmosome junctions (Journal Of Cell Biology): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Structure%20and%20assembly%20of%20desmosome%20junctions%3A%20biosynthesis%20and%20turnover%20of%20the%20major%20desmosome%20components%20of%20Madin-Darby%20canine%20kidney%20cells%20in%20low%20calcium%20medium.
Cross-Talk between Adherens Junctions and Desmosomes Depends on Plakoglobin: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Cross-Talk%20between%20Adherens%20Junctions%20and%20Desmosomes%20Depends%20on%20Plakoglobin
JUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES IN VARIOUS EPITHELIA : http://jcb.rupress.org/content/17/2/375.abstract?sid=984020cb-0141-4d27-90c2-5f0c533e9fcb
Breaking the connection: displacement of the desmosomal plaque protein desmoplakin from cell-cell interfaces disrupts anchorage of intermediate filament bundles and alters intercellular junction assembly: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Breaking%20the%20connection%3A%20displacement%20of%20the%20desmosomal%20plaque%20protein%20desmoplakin%20from%20cell-cell%20interfaces%20disrupts%20anchorage%20of%20intermediate%20filament%20bundles%20and%20alters%20intercellular%20junction%20assembly.
AN ANALYSIS OF DESMOSOME SHAPE, SIZE, AND ORIENTATION BY THE USE OF HISTOMETRIC AND DENSITOMETRIC METHODS WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=AN%20ANALYSIS%20OF%20DESMOSOME%20SHAPE%2C%20SIZE%2C%20AND%20ORIENTATION%20BY%20THE%20USE%20OF%20HISTOMETRIC%20AND%20DENSITOMETRIC%20METHODS%20WITH%20ELECTRON%20MICROSCOPY
- ↑ <pubmed>20066089</pubmed>
Related abnormalities
Current research methods
Current and future possibilities for research
Sarahs idea of z31 (me) doing function alright? So i cover ongoing/ future research and function?
Perhaps a collaboration of everyone for every topic, in that everyone submits the key pointers they think the allocated person for that topic should cover.. might lead to a more fluid overall project . I propose we elect a project manager, whom we all argue our cases to of how the project is being directed.
In terms of what a desmosome is and what it does maybe every team member will want a say on how this is portrayed. The project manager can then decide the best possible final content. One person kicks off structure and somebody does function, then individual team members forwards suggestions regarding improvements/ detractions to the project manager . Then the next topic is done. In sequence...might get the project done faster this way.
In this way every topic will become of the group mind. I've read some of the other previous projects and sometimes it looks like four individual projects stapled together.
So someone writes the structure - then we all submit our input to project manager
" ' writes the function - then we all ======================
In this way we know what is being previously said and can follow on....this will be particularly important for the current / ongoing research sections that might become bottle necked here.
The writer of the topic can confer with the group on the discussion page as to what they are writing as they are doing it.
If the writer of the topic disagrees with other group member's ideas the group manager will make a final decision based on a vote.
i dont think it matters who is the group manager but perhaps Sarah is the one for that job (Agree/ Disagree?)
I forward this proposal to the elected project manager and/ or for the group to vote on.
TOPIC BREAKDOWN: Amendment A.
((please comment on ideas of what should be discussed in each topic to give the writer a structure to work with)).
These are my ideas:
1) z3217345 writer: Introduction-Importance of the desmosome in cell biology/who first described the existence of a desmosome? inherited mutations in families first seen / basic necessity of good desmosome function-very brief short description of pathological desmosome function /Structure: location/ histological description/ Em micrographs/ a hand drawn diagram. location of / microscopic appearance which stains are used
2) histological function will be here
3 )z3288729 writer: / abnormalities seen (introduced histologically) factors leading to desmosome pathology is it nutrition based or inherited
4) z3289066 writer: (abnormalities pathology((impact on humans)) leading onto) current research (aims of research/ successes of) what clinical manifestations or symptoms are experienced- the human impact what has research done about it so far
2)+5) z3129413 writer: Histological description of function -introduce the original investigations into desmosome function/ the researchers / due to its structure what is a desmosomes main function includes schematic diagrams and Where research still needs to be done/ any existing problems ( main future investigations of note ). Some sort of conclusion.
writers of topics 1 and 2 will probably have to confer on content.
My name is Sayanthan (Sai) or z3252635 and I'm really sorry I haven't actually said or put up anything on this page. I've read through everything and I'm sort of lost so I was wondering if we could go through the plan in class tommorrow. I've also done a bit of reading up on our topic just background information and sorts so I know what we are talking about. Here are the links i used
Article on Desmosomes In Vivo This may be helpful
--Sayanthan Kumaran 23:38, 30 March 2011 (EST)
Working progress
Cell Adhesion: The Molecular Basis of Tissue Architecture and Morphogenesis [1]</pubmed>
Early research on the structure of desmosomes <pubmed>14399189</pubmed> --Sarah Jenkins 10:53, 31 March 2011 (EST)
<pubmed>13845833</pubmed> --Elisabeth Karsten 17:36, 4 April 2011 (EST)
(historical article)
z3129413 (Current research article)
(Review article)
<pubmed>8666164</pubmed> --Elisabeth Karsten 17:41, 4 April 2011 (EST)
<pubmed>16757171</pubmed> --Elisabeth Karsten 18:09, 4 April 2011 (EST)
<pubmed>10367727</pubmed> --Elisabeth Karsten 18:09, 4 April 2011 (EST)
Necessity for functional desmosomes
Desmosomes are important in hyperadhesion, with their structure supporting function, assembly, and regulation. Desmosomes are important in tissue remodelling and are associated with autoimmune and genetic diseases<pubmed>20626351</pubmed> --Sarah Jenkins 10:48, 31 March 2011 (EST)
<pubmed>16303847</pubmed> --Elisabeth Karsten 18:11, 4 April 2011 (EST)
<pubmed>2501314</pubmed> --Elisabeth Karsten 16:38, 4 April 2011 (EST)
<pubmed>12126234</pubmed> --Elisabeth Karsten 16:43, 4 April 2011 (EST)
It is uncertain whether the disorder where desmosomes lose functionality and lead to loss of adhesion between cells, which in turn leaves a blistering effect on the skin, is a genetic, immunological or infectious problem <pubmed>20178467</pubmed> --Sarah Jenkins 10:50, 31 March 2011 (EST)
Abnormalities in the skin and heart have been associated with a lack of plakoglobins and non-functional desmosomes <pubmed>21320868</pubmed> --Sarah Jenkins 09:03, 1 April 2011 (EST)
Dysfunctional desmosomes means that electrical signalling between cardiac myocytes is impaired or lost. This results in arryhtmias, particularly in the right ventricle <pubmed>21360243</pubmed> --Sarah Jenkins 09:05, 1 April 2011 (EST)
Palmoplantar skin is a specialised tissue, whose function is affected by mutant or dysfunctional desmosomes <pubmed>15708285</pubmed> --Sarah Jenkins 14:07, 2 April 2011 (EST)
Research Methods and future research
- ↑ <pubmed>8608588


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The recently revealed discovery of more than 1,400 works of art stashed away in an apartment in Munich, Germany, could pose a number of legal challenges for individuals looking to make a claim, an art expert said in an interview.
Officials in Germany uncovered invaluable works by Picasso, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and many others in the Munich apartment of art dealer Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of the Nazi-era dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt. Authorities are holding the art in an unidentified storage area near Munich.
The discovery poses thorny legal challenges, especially in the realm of restitution, according to E. Randol Schoenberg, an attorney who is also the president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
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Schoenberg said that officials will have to determine which pieces in the discovered cache are from German museums and which were seized from Jewish families during the Holocaust.
"When you find things in private collections in Europe, it's extremely difficult to get them back," he said. "In Europe, they favor the people who stole them and held them."
Schoenberg worked as an attorney for Maria Altmann in her legal battle to reclaim her family's collection of paintings, including pieces by Gustav Klimt, that were seized by the Nazis in 1938.
Early last year German authorities seized 121 framed and 1,285 unframed works from Gurlitt's Munich apartment.
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I am sorry but this is just what I needed to make me chuckle today. Tony Yayo was allegedly attacked by a polar bar in Norway while being interviewed on a Norwegian TV show with DJ Whoo Kid. Not quite sure why two bears and four monkeys were part of the interview to be honest but anyhow turns out one of the bears just wasn't feeling Tony and decided to throw him around a bit. I bet that polar bear was really Jimmy Henchman in disguise.
Like Tony Yayo doesnt get enough stick already …just waiting for the video to surface on youtube 🙂 The Unit are currently in Norway promoting TOS, I am sure Banks and Curtis are happy they sat that interview out


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ANDOVER — Every work of art is also a work of history. Created at a specific moment in time, it can't help but reflect that moment. That's true even of art removed from any external reality. Among the many virtues of the Museum of Modern Art's recent "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925" was how vividly it evoked those years. These were works shaped by their time even as they helped shape how that time subsequently came to be seen.
Conversely, sometimes artifact or document attains the status of art. Consider Ernest C. Withers's photograph of striking Memphis sanitation workers, in 1968. A mural-size blowup of it is the first thing that confronts a visitor to "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights." Confronts is the right word. Nearly 10 feet by 18 feet, it's at the top of the staircase on the second floor of the Addison Gallery of American Art. A print, 16 inches by 20 inches, is in the show proper.
The show, which was organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, runs through July 31. It seeks to explore, as a wall label puts it, "the role of visual culture — from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s — in shaping and transforming the struggle for racial equality and justice."
Withers was a talented African-American studio photographer and freelance photojournalist based in Memphis during the civil rights era. The reason Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis when he was shot was to support the strikers.
As visual documentation of a newsworthy event, the photograph is expertly done. It's clear and straightforward — dense with information without ever feeling cluttered. But the longer you look, the richer and deeper the image becomes.
The information conveyed is textual as well as visual. "I AM A MAN" declare the picket signs the workers carry. The message is like a punch, the force tripled by the simplicity of the monosyllables, the sans-serif chunkiness of those black letters on white background, and the sight of the message repeated on all those signs. Every person in the photograph is African-American; and except for the figure in the left foreground, all are male. But race and sex are incidental. The message is as universal as it is profound.
Formally, the image is no less striking. The patch of pavement in the foreground is like a thrust stage — and, along with the sky, forms a frame within the frame. Furthermore, the image is a study in perpendicularity. The vertical (utility poles, trees, the row of windows on the left) intersects with the horizontal (the row of figures bisecting the frame). The most important geometric element, of course, is that small sea of word-bearing rectangles. The juxtaposition of geometry and humanity within the frame mirrors that of individuality and order (the two come together in the tilt of that man's sign in the middle).
Withers's photograph is among several in "For All the World to See" by some very notable photographers: Elliott Erwitt, Dan Weiner, Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, Carl Van Vechten, Lotte Jacobi. But the show's 250 items mostly consist of ephemera: magazine covers, film and video clips, toys (the first African-American Barbie, for example, who arrived on the scene in 1979), campaign buttons, comic books, swizzle sticks, baseball cards, ads, record albums, a fan bearing King's portrait.
Such diversity and abundance make for a lively, informative show, but one that's scattered and diffuse. "For All the World to See" sprawls. The overlapping sounds from multiple video monitors is symbolic of the show as a whole. It's a bit of a cacophony. Or there's the wall featuring photographs of Lorraine Hansberry, Coretta Scott King holding her daughter at her husband's funeral, Marian Anderson, the Black Panthers Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, and DeCarava's celebrated image of the jazz musicians John Coltrane and Elvin Jones. The overall effect, like that of the show as a whole, approaches incoherence.
Coherence, and then some, is the point of the 69 black-and-white photographs that make up "Richard Avedon: The Family." In toto, they can be seen as a deadpan coda to "For All the World to See."
Rolling Stone magazine published these portraits of 73 members of America's power elite in October 1976. (The numerical discrepancy? The Joint Chiefs of Staff share the same picture.) The portraits are in Avedon's standard late manner: stark, unadorned, highly stylized in their ostensible lack of stylization. In this case, the simplicity reflects content as well as form: Power needs no adornment.
Some of the juxtapositions are enchanting. The radical journalist I.F. Stone's portrait hangs next to that of NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle. What's most noticeable, though, and most notable, is how overwhelmingly white the faces in these black-and-white photographs are.
There are four African-Americans: US Representatives Andrew Young, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and the labor leader A. Philip Randolph. That's a stronger representation than the one each that Asians and Hispanics get: US Senator Daniel Inouye, the United Farm Workers' Cesar Chavez. The sitters are almost as overwhelmingly male. There are seven women. Besides Chisholm and Jordan, they are Lady Bird Johnson (a particularly fine portrait), Rose Kennedy, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, US Representative Bella Abzug, and Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods.
Looking at this vast preponderance of white guys in charge, one might recall a video clip in "For All the World to See" from 1963. In it, the novelist James Baldwin remarks that "There will be a Negro president in this country." Obviously, he was right. Baldwin then adds, "It will not be the country we are sitting in now." These Avedon portraits remind us he was right about that, too.
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These programs are designed to be used with Multivariable Mathematics by R.E. Williamson and H.F. Trotter, and Introduction to Differential Equations by Richard E. Williamson, but are quite generally useful for illustrating concepts in the areas covered by the texts. So have fun, experiment with different values, and let us know if you have any trouble.
These programs were originally written in True Basic for the Macintosh
by Richard Williamson. The translation into Java and the writing of a
recursive descent equation parser was done by Scott Rankin and Susan Schwarz.
The programs are java applets tested on Macintosh computers running OS
10 using Netscape v7 and Internet Explorer v5.2, and on computers
running Windows 2000 and XP using Netscape v7 and Internet Explorer
v6. The applets will run on Macintosh computers running OS 9 using Netscape
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- October 30, 2014
- Cognex Corporation
- Feature
By John Lewis, Cognex
The need to use PCs to interface with vision systems and ID readers required the purchase of expensive hardware and development of sometimes complex software. A new generation of vision systems and ID readers with built-in EtherNet/IP connectivity streamlines factory network integration.
By John Lewis, Cognex
The traditional approach to integrating machine vision systems or image-based ID readers with factory automation involves connecting to a personal computer (PC) with a dedicated serial line or USB port and running a translator program on the PC to interface to the programmable logic controller (PLC) running the line. The latest generation of machine vision systems and ID readers offer substantial improvements by providing Ethernet connectivity and tools to communicate directly with PLCs, robot controllers, PCs and human machine interfaces (HMIs). Key benefits include eliminating the need for the PC and cabling from the PC to the vision system or ID reader, eliminating the need for software on the PC, and the ability to communicate with the vision system or ID reader from anywhere on the factory network. This article will discuss recent advances in interfacing factory networks with vision systems and ID readers, explain how the new interfaces work and provide several case studies. Traditional machine vision interfaces at device level The traditional method of interfacing between factory networks and ID readers and machine vision systems uses RS-232 serial lines or USB connections to a personal computer. The personal computer runs translation software or a custom script that parses the data and pushes it to a PLC and sometimes to other network destinations. This approach involves expenses such as purchasing and programming the PC and providing cabling to the ID reader or vision system. In the past, manufacturers would often multiplex vision systems from a single PC in order to distribute vision at multiple points on the production line. The traditional method can involve considerable expense in purchasing the PCs and cabling used to connect vision systems and ID readers. Even greater expenses may be involved in developing or purchasing and configuring the translation software running on the PC. The number of code readers or vision systems that can be connected to a single PC is limited so this approach is not easily scalable. Companies that are required to maintain Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) incur additional expenses for validation of the PC and software. Another limitation of the traditional approach is that the ID reader or vision system communicates only with the PC it is directly connected to. So it can be challenging to interface with other applications such as statistical process control (SPC) or to download configurations to multiple vision systems such as during model changeover. Ethernet-based vision systems interfaces at control level The latest generation of ID code readers and machine vision systems incorporate Ethernet ports that enable them to be directly connected to any switch or hub on a factory network and in turn communicate with all other devices on the network. The latest visions systems and ID readers also include tools that make it easy to interface directly to common factory automation hardware such as PLCs, robot controllers, HMIs and PCs. This approach eliminates the need for the PC and cabling from the PC to the ID reader or machine system, providing significant cost savings. Additional cost savings arise from the elimination of software on the PC and, for industries subject to GMP, the elimination of the need to validate the PC and its software. Direct Ethernet communications between the ID reader or machine vision system and the factory network improves scalability by making it possible to add ID readers or vision systems without having to add other hardware or software. The latest generation of vision systems and ID readers also generally includes RS-232 and USB connectivity which enables direct connection to a PC for setup and troubleshooting was well as implementation in legacy applications. Because they can be easily linked together and managed as a system over a network, the overall cost and effort involved in implementing and maintaining vision is reduced. Networked vision systems, vision sensors and ID readers enable data and images from all devices to be collected at a central point, viewed on a single monitor and archived for trend analysis and continuous process improvement. Networking also allows vision systems to increase manufacturing agility by automating procedures such as changeovers for mixed-model processing. Advanced vision systems and sensors offer software tools to centralize application development and network administration. An engineer can set up and modify vision applications, share applications with other plant sites and remotely troubleshoot problems with technicians, all without ever leaving the office. Such tools make it very easy to add new vision sensors to an existing line or copy existing vision sensor applications to new vision sensors for reuse on a new line. Integrating vision with factory networks In order to achieve these benefits, the ID reader or machine vision system must communicate with other factory automation devices such as PLCs over the network. A number of industrial Ethernet protocols are most commonly used for this purpose:
- EtherNet/IP — This Rockwell-defined protocol enables vision systems to be linked to Allen-Bradley PLCs and other devices over a single Ethernet cable, eliminating the need for complex wiring schemes and costly network gateways.
- ModBus/TCP — This industrial network protocol is defined by Schneider Electric and permits direct connectivity to Modicon PLCs and other devices over Ethernet.
- Profinet — This industrial communications protocol is defined by Profibus International and allows vision systems to communicate with Siemens PLCs and other factory automation devices.
Typical communications capabilities include pre-configured drivers, ready-to-use templates and sample code to accelerate system set-up and ensure smooth communication with factory automation robots and controllers. An array of visualization options are typically provided for integrating inspection images into a central operator interface. A point and click configuration interface is used to control multiple vision systems from a network PC and allows users to easily transfer data and images to an enterprise file server or display them in the user's own operator interface. The latest generation of vision systems provides drivers, templates and sample code for open standard industrial Ethernet communications protocols such as MC Protocol, EtherNet/IP and Profinet for connection to a wide range of PLCs and other automation devices from Mitsubishi, Rockwell, Siemens and other manufacturers. Vision systems can communicate with most any make or model of robot. Pre-configured drivers, ready-to-use templates and sample code are available for robots by ABB, Denso, Fanuc, Kawasaki, Kuka, Motoman and Staubli. Communications with robots by Mitsubishi, Adept, Epson and many other manufacturers is also supported. Discrete I/O and serial protocols are available to support older PLCs and devices without network connectivity. Fieldbus support is provided for established standards, including CCLink, DeviceNet, and Profibus. Visualization options are provided to integrate inspection images, quality data, and interactive controls into an operator interface. One typical approach embeds the vision system image and custom display into a NET or ActiveX compatible custom application, or a PC-based HMI system from Rockwell, Wonderware, Citect and others. Open Process Control (OPC) Servers can be used to uplink vision data to HMI displays, SPC systems, plant supervisory systems and Microsoft Excel to monitor operations and record statistical data. Software development kits can be used to create a custom user interface for managing vision systems. ID reader/PLC connectivity example Add on profile loaded with Rockwell AOP setup utility New module set up on PLC Definition of input and output nodes Here's an example of how a vision system or ID reader can be connected via EtherNet/IP using a Rockwell Add-on Profile (AOP). The first step is to load an electronic data sheet (EDS) file supplied with the vision system into Rockwell's EDS wizard software, RSLogix. EDS files are simple text files used by network configuration tools to help identify products and commission them on a network. The vision system or ID reader AOP is then loaded using Rockwell's AOP setup utility. The third step is to set up a new module on the PLC, add a unique name and set the IP address of the reader itself. The final step is defining the input and output nodes. Then the engineer can write the application and define the associated logic in the familiar Rockwell environment. Case histories Before a foundry can deliver 40-pound aluminum clutch housings to its customer, it must saw off the sprues and remove flash. Previously, one operator loaded the castings into a machine that sawed the sprue off and a second operator held the castings while another cutter removed flash. Odyssey Machine Company of Bowling Green, Ohio, developed a vision-guided robot application that eliminates both of these difficult and potentially dangerous tasks. A machine vision system identifies which of eight different parts is on the infeed conveyor and the location of that part. The robot then picks up the part and loads it into the three-stage sprue saw. Next, the robot takes the part from the saw and moves it around a high speed cutter in a secondary fixture to remove flash. Guided by vision system, robot picks clutch housing from conveyor The workcell runs under the control of an Allen-Bradley programmable logic controller (PLC) which is connected to the vision system with an Ethernet cable. The robot used in this application is a Fanuc S900W that the customer had previously retired, but was rebuilt by Fanuc for this application. The PLC was easily connected to the vision system via an Ethernet connection because it contains protocols needed to communicate with the PLC. The vision system is connected to the RJ2 robot control with digital input/outputs to communicate with the robot controller. The vision system sends the part identification information and the coordinate information on the part to the PLC which sends information directly to the robot controller. In the state of Texas, a tax stamp must be applied to each liquor bottle sold at the wholesale level, such as to hotels and restaurants. Good-Goody Liquor, Dallas, Texas, wanted to automate the process of reading the stamps to ensure each bottle has a tax stamp and to store its number in a database with the bottle number for audit purposes. The application presents a major barcode reading challenge. The system processes bottles at the rate of one per second and the bottles have different shapes and different backgrounds. In addition, the label position varies and the lighting continually changes. ID reader reads tax stamp barcode for verification and tracking Cisco-Eagle, the company that built the automated system for applying the stamps, worked with Goody-Goody Liquor to develop a system that automatically applies the tax stamps with 1D barcodes and reads the barcode for verification and tracking. Machine vision is used to identify bottles that do not have a stamp on them so they can be removed from the line. Machine vision is also used to capture the tax stamp number so it can be entered into a database along with the bottle number in case of an audit. The ID reader communicates using Rockwell's Ethernet/IP protocol and has a driver for Rockwell PLCs that simplifies the integration task. Once the driver is installed in the PLC, the camera shows up as a component in the PLC. The PLC can then be easily programmed to issue any commands to the camera such as to capture an image with minimal programming. In this application, issuing the command to the barcode reader to capture an image, provide feedback on whether or not a barcode was detected, and send the barcode number was accomplished with only three lines of code. Conclusion The need in the past to use PCs to interface with vision systems and ID readers required the purchase of expensive hardware and development of sometimes complex software to interface with factory networks. A new generation of vision systems and ID readers with built-in Ethernet connectivity and tools for interfacing directly with common factory automation devices streamlines factory network integration. In addition to reducing the time and cost required for implementation, the new devices also increase the value of vision systems and ID readers by enabling the information they generate to be more easily accessed and utilized in other applications.Learn More
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